U.S. Air Force Comics #20

Lt. Pappy Linden is a P-38 pilot racking up aerial victories over the North African desert—until he refuses a dangerous ground-support mission and faces the consequences when a wounded British officer confronts him. Reassigned to fly constant low-level missions supporting ground troops instead of chasing glory in the sky, Linden discovers that real warfare means something far different than personal accolades. As he transforms from a self-centered fighter jock into a soldier fighting for his comrades' survival, he learns what it truly means to win.

Major Edwin L. Barth barely escapes with his life after a Communist pilot shoots down his F-101A over the Formosa Strait, leaving him stranded in enemy waters—but when Captain Pete Kendall arrives to help, a larger air battle erupts that changes everything. Barth and Kendall devise a dangerous strategy, using false distress calls to bait enemy fighters into ambushes, turning the tables on the Communists until they finally learn to fear the U.S. Air Force.

M/SGT. Michael T. Shansky of the U.S. Air Force carries a secret that could cost him everything: his wife and twin children are alive behind the Iron Curtain, and Communist agents have learned exactly how to use that against him. When they offer him a chance to see his family again in exchange for classified information about American bombers, Shansky faces an agonizing choice between personal salvation and national security. As he supplies the enemy with vital intelligence, a trap is being set—one that will force him to confront the true price of his betrayal when his own aircraft becomes the target.